1 Post Structuralism, Historical Theory and Critical Race Theory: A Pyramid for Critical Historical Analysis -- 2 Introduction to the Field of Composition: Politics from the Start -- 3 A History Untold: Composition’s Connected Past to the Educational Reforms of the Reconstructive Era -- 4 Chicanos and African-Americans: In/Visibility in Composition -- 5 The Second Reconstruction: The Civil Rights Era and Composition’s Response to the New “Egalitarian” University -- 6 Multiculturalism’s Conflict: A Nation’s Quest for Accommodation and Excellence in Education -- 7 Historiography in the Writing Classroom: A Case for Teaching Chicano/Chicana-Latino/Latina history -- 8 Guatemala as a Site for Critical Historiography -- 9 Conclusion. .This book examines the history of ethnic minorities particularly Chicano/as and Latino/as--in the field of composition and rhetoric; the connections between composition and major US historical movements toward inclusiveness in education; the ways our histories of that inclusiveness have overlooked Chicano/as; and how this history can inform the teaching of composition and writing to Chicano/a and Latino/a students in the present day. Bridging the gap between Ethnic Studies, Critical History, and Composition Studies, Ruiz creates a new model of the practice of critical historiography and shows how that can be developed into a critical writing pedagogy for students who live in an increasingly multicultural, multilingual society.